Editorial
Grayson H & Parish N (2024) Responses to a call to action: new directions and directives in memory studies in the French-speaking world. Modern & Contemporary France, 32 (1), pp. 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2023.2285370
Professor Nina Parish
Professor in French & Francophone
Literature and Languages - Division Stirling
About me
I joined the University of Stirling as Professor of French and Francophone Studies in July 2019 and am currently Head of the Division of Literature & Languages.
I research representations of difficult history, the migrant experience and multilingualism in the museum space. I was part of the DisTerrMem team, working on an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project based at the University of Bath where I’m a visiting researcher. This project examines the management of competing, often highly antagonistic, memories of disputed territories across borders focusing on the case studies of Armenia, Pakistan, Poland and Lithuania. (https://www.disterrmem.eu). From 2019 to 2022, I worked with Prof Daniele Rugo (Brunel University) on the Memories from the Margins project, funded by the British Academy GCRF Heritage, Dignity and Violence Programme, which looked at unofficial memories of the civil war in Lebanon and the war in Syria (https://www.memoriesmargins.com). One of the outputs of this project was a documentary film, The Soil and the Sea (https://www.soilandseafilm.com). Between 2016 and 2019 I was part of the EU-funded Horizon 2020 UNREST team working on innovative memory practices in sites of trauma including war museums and mass graves (www.unrest.eu).
I am also an expert on the interaction between text and image in the field of modern and contemporary French Studies. I have published widely on this subject, in particular, on the poet and visual artist, Henri Michaux. From 2012 to 2016, with Dr Emma Wagstaff (University of Birmingham), I co-organised an international research network, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, on interdisciplinary connections in contemporary French poetic practice (https://frenchpoetryand.wordpress.com/).
I have taught across all years of our undergraduate programme in French at Stirling and act as module coordinator for FREU9H5 French Honours/General Language: Composition. I have also contributed to the MSc in Heritage and to the MLitt in Creative Writing. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Event / Presentation
Diasporic Memory Practice on the Internet: Remembering Lost Homelands
Invited paper at the Centre for Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute, University of St Andrews (November 2022)
Other Project
‘Modern French Thought and Poetry’, French Department Studentship, Royal Holloway University of London
Arts and Humanities Research Board PhD Scholarship
Including Study Trip award
Erasmus Mundus Award: Staff exchange with the University of Sydney
University of Sydney
For more information, see: http://www.bath.ac.uk/polis/research/projects/suitcases-boats-bridges-migrant-stories-australian-museums/
University of Bath, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Teaching Development Fund, ‘From Scrapbooks to Death Masks: Stepping into the University’s Archives & Research Collections’
University of Bath
EU Horizon 2020 - UNREST (Unsettling Remembering and Social Cohesion in Transnational Europe)
See project website for more information: www.unrest.eu
EU Horizon 2020 - MSCA RISE Memory Across Borders: Dealing with the Legacy of Disputed Territories
See project website for more information: www.disterrmem.eu
Able to participate thanks to visiting researcher status at the University of Bath.
British Academy Overseas Conference Grant
University of Bath International Researcher Mobility Scheme
For more information, see: http://www.bath.ac.uk/polis/research/projects/suitcases-boats-bridges-migrant-stories-australian-museums/
Research (1)
Representing difficult history, the migrant experience and multilingualism in the museum space; memory studies
Twentieth and twenty-first-century French and Francophone literature and the visual arts and in particular modernism, the avant-gardes, modern and contemporary poetic practice and the artists book
Interdisciplinary studies, with a special emphasis on text and image
Projects
Informal histories. Bottom-up practices for dealing with conflict-produced heritage in Lebanon and Syria as new democratic spaces
PI: Professor Nina Parish
Funded by: The British Academy
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Outputs (38)
Outputs
Article
Diasporic memory practice on the Internet: Remembering lost homelands
Clarke D, Parish N, Winfield P & Lecrivain A (2023) Diasporic memory practice on the Internet: Remembering lost homelands. Memory Studies, 16 (4), pp. 1003-1019. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980221122174
Book Chapter
Memory Cultures of War in European War Museums
Berger S, Cento Bull A, Cercel C, Clarke D, Parish N, Rowley E & Wóycicka Z (2021) Memory Cultures of War in European War Museums. In: Berger S & Kansteiner W (eds.) Agonistic Memory and the Legacy of 20th Century Wars in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 69-114. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86055-4_4
Book Chapter
Clarke D, Parish N & Sené A (2021) Taking Agonism Online: Creating a Mass Open Online Course to Disseminate the Findings of the UNREST Project. In: Berger S & Kansteiner W (eds.) Agonistic Memory and the Legacy of 20th Century Wars in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 179-202. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86055-4_7
Editorial
Memories from the margins: violence and counter-narratives : Introduction
Parish N & Rugo D (2021) Memories from the margins: violence and counter-narratives : Introduction. Journal of the British Academy, 9 (Supplement 3), pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/009s3.001
Book Chapter
Remembering the First World War in France: the Historial de la Grande Guerre and Thiepval Museum
Parish N & Rowley E (2020) Remembering the First World War in France: the Historial de la Grande Guerre and Thiepval Museum. In: Demossier M, Lees D, Mondon A & Parish N (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture. Routledge International Handbooks. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 193-203. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-French-Politics-and-Culture-1st-Edition/Demossier-Lees-Mondon-Parish/p/book/9781138101753
Book Chapter
Remembering World War I in Australia: Hyde Park as Site of Memory
Parish N & O’Reilly C (2020) Remembering World War I in Australia: Hyde Park as Site of Memory. In: Hubbell AL, Akagawa N, Rojas-Lizana S & Pohlman A (eds.) Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 109-131. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_6
Edited Book
The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture
Demossier M, Lees D, Mondon A & Parish N (eds.) (2019) The Routledge Handbook of French Politics and Culture. Routledge International Handbooks. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-French-Politics-and-Culture/Demossier-Lees-Mondon-Parish/p/book/9781138101753
Article
War museums as agonistic spaces: possibilities, opportunities and constraints
Cento Bull A, Hansen HL, Kansteiner W & Parish N (2019) War museums as agonistic spaces: possibilities, opportunities and constraints. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 25 (6), pp. 611-625. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1530288
Article
Cercel C, Parish N & Rowley E (2019) War in the Museum: The Historial of the Great War in Péronne and the Military History Museum in Dresden. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 12 (2), pp. 194-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2019.1580846
Book Chapter
Michele Metail: traduire la contrainte
Parish N & Wagstaff E (2019) Michele Metail: traduire la contrainte. In: Royère A (ed.) Michèle Métail: La poèsie en trois dimensions. Dijon, France: Les presses du réel.
Article
Translating Contemporary French Poetry
Wagstaff E & Parish N (2018) Translating Contemporary French Poetry. Irish Journal of French Studies, 18 (1), pp. 163-194. https://doi.org/10.7173/164913318825258347
Edited Book
Poetry's Forms and Transformations
(2018) Poetry's Forms and Transformations. L'Esprit Créateur, 58:3. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. https://espritcreateur.org/issue/poetrys-forms-and-transformations
Other
War Museums and Agonistic Memory: a Report
Berger S, Bull AC, Wóycicka Z, Cercel C, Parish N, Quinkenstein MA, Rowley E, Dodd J & Plumb S (2018) War Museums and Agonistic Memory: a Report. Museum Worlds, 6 (1), pp. 112-124. https://doi.org/10.3167/armw.2018.060109
Other
Parish N & Wagstaff E (2018) Alessandro De Francesco, Augmented Writing – Translation As Augmentation. “Covering an Enhanced Real” – For Jean-Marie Gleize, mixed media, 40cmx40cm (2010).
Other
Parish N & Wagstaff E (2018) Poetry.
Article
Deganutti M, Parish N & Rowley E (2018) Representing multilingual difficult history: Voices of the First World War in the Kobarid Museum (Slovenia) and the Historial de la Grande Guerre (France). Journal of Specialised Translation, (29), pp. 63-80. https://www.jostrans.org/issue29/art_deganutti.php
Article
Bissoonauth A & Parish N (2017) French, English or Kanak Languages? Can Traditional Languages and Cultures Be Sustained in New Caledonia?. PORTAL Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 14 (2), pp. 39-53. https://doi.org/10.5130/portal.v14i2.5378
Article
O’Reilly C & Parish N (2017) Suitcases, keys and handkerchiefs: how are objects being used to collect and tell migrant stories in Australian museums?. Museums and Social Issues, 12 (2), pp. 99-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/15596893.2017.1386015
Edited Book
Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry
Parish N & Wagstaff E (eds.) (2016) Writing the Real: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary French Poetry. London: Enitharmon Press.
Article
Parish N & Wagstaff E (2016) Pierre Lecuire: assessing the coexistence of the material and the virtual in his Modernist publishing project. Word & Image, 32 (2), pp. 143-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/02666286.2016.1143768
Article
O'Reilly C & Parish N (2015) Telling migrant stories in museums in Australia: Does the community gallery still have a role to play?. Museum Management and Curatorship, 30 (4), pp. 296-313. https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2015.1044461
Book Chapter
Portraits and Neologisms: Understanding the Visual in Henri Michaux's 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne'
Parish N (2013) Portraits and Neologisms: Understanding the Visual in Henri Michaux's 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne'. In: Harrow S (ed.) The Art of the Text: Visuality in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literary and Other Media. Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Edited Book
Chantiers du poème: Prémisses et pratiques de la création poétique moderne et contemporaine
(2013) Chantiers du poème: Prémisses et pratiques de la création poétique moderne et contemporaine. Modern French Identities, 104. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-0353-0402-2
Book Chapter
Poésie et technologie: Les transformations numériques de l’espace poétique contemporain
Parish N (2012) Poésie et technologie: Les transformations numériques de l’espace poétique contemporain. In: Chantiers du poème : Prémisses et pratiques de la création poétique moderne et contemporaine, ed. by Hugues Azérad et al. Modern French Identities, 104. Oxford: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, pp. 213-28.
Other
Guest editor: Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945
Parish N, Azérad H, Kelly M & Wagstaff E (2012) Guest editor: Poetic Practice and the Practice of Poetics in French since 1945. French Forum, 37 (1-2).
Book Chapter
Lire le visuel dans 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne': Une approche interdisciplinaire
Parish N (2012) Lire le visuel dans 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne': Une approche interdisciplinaire. In: 'Voyage en Grande Garabagne' de Henri Michaux. Bologna: Clueb, pp. 7-25.
Article
From Radio to the Internet: Italian Futurism, New Technologies and the Persistence of the Book
Parish N (2012) From Radio to the Internet: Italian Futurism, New Technologies and the Persistence of the Book. International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, 2 (1), pp. 378-396. https://doi.org/10.1515/futur-2012.0019
Article
A textless title: The mythical status of Blaise Cendrars’ La Légende de Novgorode
Parish N (2012) A textless title: The mythical status of Blaise Cendrars’ La Légende de Novgorode. Journal of European Studies, 42 (1), pp. 22-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047244111428843
Book Chapter
Pour faire un livre dadaïste: Dada Experimentation with Book Form
Parish N (2011) Pour faire un livre dadaïste: Dada Experimentation with Book Form. In: Adamowicz E & Robertson E (eds.) Dada and Beyond. Volume 1: Dada Discourses. Avantgarde Critical Studies. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 93-106.
Book Chapter
Henri Michaux: Poète du vingtième siècle?
Parish N (2009) Henri Michaux: Poète du vingtième siècle?. In: Fels L (ed.) Regards sur la poésie du XXe siècle. Presses universitaires de Namur/Editions namuroises/Editions poiêtês: Les éditions namuroises, pp. 373-394.
Article
Between Text and Image, East and West: Henri Michaux’s Signs and Christian Dotremont’s “Logogrammes”
Parish N (2008) Between Text and Image, East and West: Henri Michaux’s Signs and Christian Dotremont’s “Logogrammes”. Monti E (Editor) RILUNE - Review of European Literatures, 8, pp. 67-80.
Article
Mediating the creative act via word and image: The case of Henri Michaux, a double artist
Parish N (2008) Mediating the creative act via word and image: The case of Henri Michaux, a double artist. Letteratura e Arte, 6, pp. 125-133, Art. No.: 2237753. https://doi.org/10.1400/104495
Article
From book to page to screen: Poetry and new media
Parish N (2008) From book to page to screen: Poetry and new media. Yale French Studies, 114 (Writing and the Image Today), pp. 51-66. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/
Book Chapter
Parish N (2007) L'imaginaire oriental: Les formes et les fonctions des caractères chinois dans l'expérimentation des signes d'Henri Michaux. In: Tilleuil J & Watthee-Delmotte M (eds.) Texte, image, imaginaire. Structures et pouvoirs des imaginaires. Paris: L'Harmattan, pp. 227-236.
Monograph
Henri Michaux: Experimentation with Signs
Parish N (2007) Henri Michaux: Experimentation with Signs. Faux titre. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Book Chapter
Le corps et le mouvement dans les livres composés de signes d’Henri Michaux
Parish N (2006) Le corps et le mouvement dans les livres composés de signes d’Henri Michaux. In: Henri Michaux: Je vous écris d’un pays lointain, Textyles, 29 (Revue des lettres belges de langue française), ed. by V Jago-Antoine & J Carion. Brussels, pp. 44-52.
Book Chapter
Henri Michaux: Destruction of the Book Form and Creation of the Book-Object
Parish N (2004) Henri Michaux: Destruction of the Book Form and Creation of the Book-Object. In: Reading Images Seeing Words. Faux titre. Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 19-36.